99% Invisible: “Holdout” Around 2005, a Seattle neighborhood called Ballard started to see unprecedented growth. Developers offered a woman named Edith Macefield $750,000 for her small house. Macefield turned down the money, and developers went ahead and enveloped her house on three sides with a shopping mall.

This week on KALW's showcase for the best in public radio podcasts . . .Radio Diaries:“Strange Fruit - Voices of a Lynching” Poet and songwriter Abel Meeropol wrote “Strange Fruit” after seeing a photograph of two black teenagers hanging from a tree. Decades later, a box of recordings was found in a basement containing the recollections of people who witnessed or took part in the events of that day.

This week on KALW's showcase for the best in public radio podcasts . . .

Radio Ambulante Unscripted: "Building Bridges and Smuggling Books" Daniel Alarcón speaks with writer and activist Tony Diaz, - a.k.a. Librotraficante - one of the leaders of a nation-wide movement in favor of Mexican-American and Ethnic Studies.

Radio Ambulante Unscripted: "Riding The Beast"Host Daniel Alarcón talks to investigative journalist Oscar Martinez about his experience riding the "The Beast," the infamous train that takes migrants through Mexico on their way to the United States.

99% Invisible: "Duplitecture" The best knock-offs in the world are in China. There are plenty of fake designer handbags and Rolexes but China’s knock-offs go way beyond fashion. There are knock-off Apple stores that look so much like the real thing, some employees believe they are working in real Apple stores. And then there are entire knock-off cities.

One with Farai:“A Woman, A Writer, A Wit” Farai Chideya speaks with New York Times Book Review columnist Anna Holmes, who applies her wit to questions of everything from womanhood, children in New York, and her former job as the editor of Jezebel.com. From PRI's Soundworks. Thursday at 5:30pm.

In California, there are hundreds if not thousands of people practicing criminal law though they’ve never passed a bar exam. They’re inmates who pursue the equivalent of a lawyer’s education and who work as lawyers from within prison walls.

Life of the Law: Privacy Issues Mike Katz-Lacabe is a normal, taxpaying, married, father of two. And yet, the San Leandro police department has what amounts to a family photo album of him and his car. If you drive a car and live in an American city, your local police department probably has an album of you, too.

99% Invisible: “Structural Integrity” When it was built in 1977, Citicorp Center was the seventh-tallest building in the world. But it’s the base of the building that really makes the tower so unique. The bottom nine of its 59 stories are stilts.

Blank on Blank: "Johnny Cash on the Gospel" "I just hope and pray I can die with my boots on." A previously unheard interview recorded in 1996.

99% Invisible "Title TK" The name is important. It’s the first thing of any product you use or buy or see. The tip of the spear. Only the names that are most interesting and most pleasant on the tongue can survive in your memory. So it’s no surprise that companies—especially large ones like Sony or Procter & Gamble—hire naming companies.

Youth Radio podcast: "An on-line challenge turns deadly" An online drinking challenge made popular in the UK and Australia has already been responsible for five deaths of men under 30 years old. Youth Radio’s Rafael Johns and his friends have been monitoring this trend on YouTube wondering if it will hit in the US.

Theory of Everything: When You're Lonely, Life is Very Long. After moving to New York, writer Olivia Laing discovered the truth about loneliness. She says it is a gift. Eric Klinenberg explains why more and more people are choosing to live alone and why cities like New York must invest in housing stock that singletons actually want to live in, the type of housing they have in Scandinavian countries.

Life of the Law: “Bad Constitution” Alabama has the longest constitution, not just in the country, but in the world, with 885 amendments and counting. Hear why it got that way, and how it affects everything in the state from school desegregation to pig farms.

Theory of Everything: "F is for Fake": To bot or not? Host Benjamen Walker talks to data scientist Gilad Lotan about "fake followers" and online reputations, and Jason Q Ng, author of the book Blocked on Weibo, tells us why the Chinese government hates on-line bots.

Fugitive Waves:"Edison"The Kitchen Sisters explore the ups and downs (and ups and downs and ups) in the life of the great American inventor. Fugitive Waves is one of the shows featured in Radiotopia, the new podcast network from PRX.

Life of the Law: "School Discipline" As the number of law enforcement officers on school campuses has gone up, so have the number of arrests. This month the Obama Administration issued recommendations for alternative forms of discipline -- but as the story of Kyle Thompson demonstrates, in the real world of schools, the issues are tricky.